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From: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: unix domain sockets
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.023047.19975@uniwa.uwa.oz>
Date: 23 Feb 90 02:30:47 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia
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	When a unix domain socket is opened by a server program
it is created in the file system, but when the server program closes 
it and exits it continues to exist. Now when a client program
is run it get an error saying that the socket is not connected,
while when the server is run it gets an address already in use
error. 

	My question is does this now orphaned socket have a 
possible use or does it just get in the way.
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	Toivo Pedaste				ACSNET: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz